Second National Scorecard On US Health Care System Finds No Overall Improvement
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 09:14
in Health & Medicine
A new national scorecard from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System finds that the US health care system has failed to improve overall and that scores on access have declined significantly since the first national scorecard in 2006. Despite spending more on health care than any other industrialized nation, the US overall continues to fall far short on key indicators of health outcomes and quality, with particularly low scores on efficiency.
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